Karina Rosenstein

Karina, your yardage was beautiful! We loved seeing the new structures you created  :)

Weaving on: Lou
Joining us from: Charlotte, North Carolina​

Tell us about yourself and what led you to the residency?

Almost 3 years ago, I started working as an upholstery fabric designer. I love weave structure, and getting to design jacquard-woven fabrics daily has been a wonderful learning experience and very gratifying. 

But, I’ve been yearning to apply my jacquard design skill set to my own weaving practice! This residency will be an opportunity to experiment with structure, fiber, color, and pattern in a way I’m not able to either at work or at home on my 8-harness dobby loom.

Have you had any previous experience with Digital Weaving or Jacquard?

At work, I design jacquard-woven fabric daily, though the mill our studio designs for does all the weaving. My experience hand weaving on a Jacquard loom has been more limited; while I was pursuing my MFA in Fibers I wove on SCAD’s previous Jacquard loom before they acquired a TC2, and I took Praxis’ one-week TC2 introductory class. 

Any goals for the residency you'd like to share?

I’d like to explore the patterns I’ve brought with me, changing and tweaking them until they reach a point of resolution. As I weave, I hope the work will inspire me to design another pattern that I can weave before the residency comes to an end. We’ll see where the weaving takes me… 


Connect with Karins via instagram @karinarosenstein ​